Double AS

"Well, yes, the two of you on Friday night, my surname is Kise." Kise hung up the phone happily, humming a song, and it didn't look like he was beaten to death by doctors and nurses in the hospital just now ;He asked for leave this morning to go to Dr. Narita for treatment.

"You really booked the landscape restaurant to tell Aomine Daiki about that?" Nakatani Miyuki, who hadn't seen her for a long time, said in her usual indifferent voice; since Kise entered the freezing period and stopped working in the office , she also hasn't seen Ryota for a while.

The corner of his mouth twitched coldly, as if he was smiling.

──In a high-rise restaurant with a panoramic view of the night in Tokyo, while having a luxurious candlelight dinner that doesn't match their age, listening to live string music; how did this kid confess that he was going to study in Paris? Make it look like you're going to kneel down and propose?

Then she glanced at the ring on Kise's ring finger—and didn't this kid agree to Aomine Daiki's marriage proposal a long time ago?Although it has no legal effect at all.

"Uh... I always feel that it's easier for me to speak if the atmosphere is better..."

"Finally compensate him with your body?" Don't think she doesn't know why this guy begged her to book a suite with a view for the whole night.Although this kid has twists and turns in his heart, but to put it bluntly, it is actually as simple as hell.

"Thank you Xiaomeixue for bringing me here... For an artist who is in the freezing period, you don't need to pay attention to me..." Kise scratched his face and smiled.

"Just passing by, anyway."

"And...the thing about the contract..." Kise lowered his head, "The firm...has it really given up on talking to me about renewing the contract?" In another half a month, no, not even In half a month, his long six-year contract was coming to an end, but the firm no longer forced him to sign a contract extension as before.He couldn't believe it, did they let him go so easily?

Facing Kise's question, Nakatani Miyuki didn't look back at him.

In the rearview mirror, the face wearing sunglasses has no expression.

"This is our adult's business, children don't care." Then I don't know why there is a sudden silence.

After a long time, she spoke softly again.

"You just need to finish the game right now—the last game of your life. Don't think about anything else."

"I think... the relationship between Xiao Meixue and me...is not so much a manager and an artist, but a father-son relationship? Xiao Meixue is like my father." I felt a little ashamed as I spoke.

"I don't want a son like you." Apart from causing trouble, it is of no use at all.

"Excessive!"

Miyuki grinned.

"It's been all this way...it's all due to Xiao Meixue...otherwise it's just me...I definitely can't get here...Even if there is no relationship between us as a manager or an artist, Xiao Meixue will still be me for the rest of my life One of the most important... family members. Well, just like Mom." He said it from the bottom of his heart, all sincerity.

"Speaking of which, I don't think I've ever heard Miyuki talk about you. Who are the people in your family?" Kise suddenly leaned forward, his eyes sparkling with curiosity, and he barely showed his ears and tail. It shook from side to side.

"Oh," Miyuki said blankly, "I haven't been in touch for a long time──"

"Some families have a very low tolerance for homosexuality. You can only choose one of entering the closet or leaving home. So... I haven't contacted for about 20 years, so if you ask me who else is in my family, I will also It’s just that there’s really no way to confirm it.” The usual calm, always rational tone, as if everything is so commonplace.

"So I don't suggest you come out now, at least wait another ten years. This is also to give you time to confirm your true sexual orientation. If ten years have passed, you are still only attracted to men, and then you will consider confessing Not too late."

Nakatani Miyuki just gave him a look, and then pulled the hand brake.

Kise pursed her lips, thought about it, and then nodded cautiously.

"Is it enough to let you get out of the car here?" Nakatani Miyuki parked the car at the intersection some distance from the school gate, and unlocked the central lock.

"Well, I'll just walk over by myself." Now that he has gradually gotten used to the life of ordinary people, he naturally doesn't want to be too ostentatious; Xiao Meixue's dark blue Porsche is really eye-catching.

20 years... Cut off contact with my family... How does it feel...

Kise pondered, walking slowly up the ramp to the school.

Indeed, in my impression, little Michelle has never mentioned about her family, and she has given people a feeling of being alone for a long time.

It was only then that Huang Lai discovered very slowly that almost every time during the holidays, Xiao Miyuki was either busy with work or went abroad directly, completely avoiding any days when she needed to go home──

Because there is no home at all.

Huge and empty offices, high-end but deserted apartments.

A man was smoking a cigarette, with his hands folded around his chest, overlooking the entire Tokyo scenery.

That lonely feeling.

The female companions around me come and go, but none of them are really settled, and at the age of nearly forty, they are still lonely.

──No family, no lover, no backing, no support, living alone in the world, facing all the battles, discrimination, prejudice, all kinds of gossip, all kinds of eye pressure, ten years and twenty years It has always been like this.

"If you are not strong, don't come into this world."

Looking back on it like this now, all the words back then have meaning.

"But I have Xiao Qingfeng...I'm not alone..." He tightly held the blue ring in his hand, as long as he held it tightly, his heart and body would have endless power.

It's hard work alone.But if it's two people... He doesn't expect the road to be smooth, but at least he must have the strength to go the whole way.

If it is two people.

Just as he was meditating and walking to the main entrance of Tonghuang Academy, he saw a figure.

A little familiar.

It's Xiao Qingfeng's mother.

He remembered that Xiao Qingfeng's mother had come during Diguang's graduation ceremony; Xiao Qingfeng's mother was very small, and it was even more obvious standing next to Xiao Qingfeng, so she was particularly impressive.

"Hello, Auntie... are you here to find Xiao Qingfeng?" He immediately walked up to him and greeted him softly.

But as soon as the other party saw him, he immediately retreated three steps in shock like an electric shock.Eyes wide open, that expression has...a lot...complex feelings besides shock.

"Are you...Dahui's classmate?" After hesitating for a while, Aomine's mother still kept a distance from him, asking a little uncertainly.

"Well, I'm Xiaoqingfeng's classmate. In our country, he and Xiaotao studied in Teiguang together. Auntie, don't you remember me? I'm Kise Ryota. I was on the basketball team like Xiaoqingfeng in junior high school, but now That's right." He laughed.

After this time, he should play truant and sleep on the roof, and call him quickly to avoid being caught.

Facing the boy in front of him who was smiling very gently and brightly at her, Aomine Kei stared at his face quietly.

Indeed... a very beautiful boy... Even many girls are probably not half as beautiful as him, right?From the looks of it, he is also a polite and bright boy...

Stabilizing my chaotic heart, I kept telling myself to calm down, and made a deep determination—"No, I'm here to find you."

"I'm here to see you, Kise-san."

When she said these words, she felt herself trembling all over.

Even so, she still had to say it.

She dug out the magazines that Dahui kept in the cabinet in the room. In addition to the photo albums of young girls and basketball magazines, there were many magazines—the boy was on the cover.

She worked hard in the bookstore to flip through several issues of entertainment magazines that she never read, and finally met this boy──

Kise Ryota, a well-known student model, has also acted in movies in addition to commercials.

Very popular, but also a lot of controversy.There are as many people who hate him as there are people who like him.

You know what you know, but seeing yourself has a greater impact—as if those illusory things instantly turned into iron-like reality.

There is not even room for self-deception.

The person her son said really existed, standing in front of him.

All this is true.

"Can...give me some time...let me talk to you about something..." She said tremblingly even though she felt that she was going to pass out in a second.

Looking at her expression, Kise probably guessed a thing or two.

"Auntie, calm down first... let's find a place to sit down and talk... okay..."

Aomine spoke the words.

Tell his family about him and him.

The two sat silently in a cafe on the corner of the street.Kise also specially asked for a box seat.He was still in his uniform, which seemed a little awkward to be here when classes were still in session.

But he couldn't care less now.

Until the coffee was served, both of them were silent, and no one spoke first.

Everyone knew that this opening meant that something serious would be revealed.

Across the table, the two most important people in Aomine Daiki's life were silent.

"The wound on Xiao Qingfeng's forehead...was his father hitting him?" In the end, it was Kise who spoke first.

Aomine Hui nodded quietly.

"So he said everything?...Auntie, you and uncle?"

Aomine Hui nodded.

Huang Lai pursed her lips, unable to speak anymore.

"Please...please leave him...for Daiki's sake..."

The expected words finally appeared.

Kise turned his eyes away.Although such a picture was not unimagined, it was discovered after the actual encounter that it was a thousand times or ten thousand times more difficult than imagined.

Staring at a corner of the box, I didn't really want to look at it, but just wanted to force myself to focus on it.The whole body is cold.

Huang Lai pursed her lips and said nothing.

Neither agreed nor objected.

"Please...don't destroy him! He's just a simple child!" Faced with the other party's silence, Aomine Hui couldn't hold back her anxious mood anymore. This was simply hurting herself the most and the most unbearable , the bloody wound on the side I was most afraid of spread out, and then I forced myself to look, to touch and dig──“He still has a lot of possibilities... Please let him go──I beg you here... ...Dahui is not that kind of person... I am his mother and I understand it! Please, please... let him go..."

"Please let him go! I beg you! You can kneel here!──"

She really stood up and then knelt down on the ground.

She knelt down in front of the boy.begging.

"Please let him go..." She broke down.She couldn't hold on any longer.Tears dripped down.

She didn't come to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, she came to beg him.

"Auntie, please don't do this..." Kise immediately pulled her up, and he was also distraught.

He thought that he would be slapped, threatened, intimidated, and scolded with extreme harsh words—he was mentally prepared for all of these, but he never expected that Qingfeng's mother would just come to beg him.

Crying and begging him.

Just looking at the exhaustion and vicissitudes on her face, he could feel how much suffering she was enduring.

He would rather be scolded and beaten—at least he should know how to deal with—

"I know that a big star like you is a person who lives on a completely different level from us... If I had to, I would never come to beg you──The child has completely broken with the family." She burst into tears, every sentence , Every word is trembling with pain.

She is not the only one who came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime.

She's just a miserable mother on the verge of collapse.

"He told his father everything... This is not an ordinary father-son quarrel... My husband... his father, has already branded the words-" As long as I am alive, you will never want to enter the door of this house again ", I understand his temper very well, Taisuke is here for real this time... He really would rather not have this son..." The originally peaceful family collapsed and shattered overnight, "──So I beg you! I beg You! Only you can end this now!"

"So that day..."

"His father hit him with an ashtray," she trembled.

If she hadn't rushed out desperately to protect him, I'm afraid it would not be as simple as just leaving a scar on his forehead.

Even if the head is broken, it is not willing to give up.I would rather tear myself apart from my family than leave that boy.

That's why she came to beg him.

There was nothing she could do.

"I'm paying for all his expenses now, not because of my support, but because I'm afraid—if even I fail, my son will never come back—" She cried bitterly, and never Can't go on.

Who can understand her pain and fear?

Countless nights, she knelt in front of the god statue, trembling and praying to God, even if she had to sacrifice her life, she still hoped that his son would come back.

She is a resolute woman. She has been with her husband for several years, and finally achieved this small achievement, and then let her two children grow up without worrying about food and clothing.She always thought that nothing in the world could bring her down.

But this time she was completely panicked.

She didn't know what to do.

On the one hand, she hoped that such opposition would make her son lose his way, but on the other hand, she was afraid of losing him.

So she could only come and beg him.

There was nothing she could do.

"If it was you, he would definitely listen, right?" A desperate and sad mother begged herself with tears like this.

"...I can't answer you," he said.

"I really can't answer you..."

He left the coffee money on the table and left.